It occurred to me that I never fully gathered my thoughts about Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. People have asked me over the past few months and I've posted in different places like on Facebook and in the diversity thread in the expanded universe part of the forums on theforce.net ( Read more... )

Reposted from my tumblrAs a young-ish Asian American girl when Mulan first came out in the early 2000s, I distinctly remember not liking Mulan's appearance. I never really pinned down why exactly this was until recently ( Read more... )

There was a lovely little four year old girl with her mom on the bus, sitting across from me today. Her mom was reading the Entertainment section of the paper. She pointed at an ad and asked, "Who is this ( Read more... )

Ken: I just realized something.
Me: What, honey?
Ken: Well...at the end of "Beauty and the Beast," Gaston falls off the castle and to his death, right?
Me: Right.
Ken: So after the Prince had his "I'm human!" celebration, does that mean that one of the servants had to go clean up the remains of Gaston?
Me:...I guess?
Ken: And you know it was ( Read more... )

I almost forgot to write this up and I know my memory is not living up to a lot of this stuff but I hope I still remember enough blips to make an amusing post. At Disney World, we also visited Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, and Typhoon Lagoon...

TREE OF LIFE: So, the Magic Kingdom has the Cinderella Castle, and EPCOT has the big shiny ball, and ( Read more... )

We popped into Hollywood Studios a number of times during our trip, too. The park used to be known as MGM Studios and it's kind of a mix between Disneyland and Universal Studios. It's themed after Hollywood, of course, and the decor tries to look like the Los Angeles area. One of the main thoroughfares is called "Sunset Boulevard." It is ( Read more... )

Part two in my series, I guess? We went to Epcot at least three times we were there. I really liked this park...it's so different from anything we have in CA. The first time we went it was for Ken's birthday...

TEPPAN-EDO: I love teppanyaki restaurants and their theatrical cooking, even if in Japan it's known as something foreigners do and not ( Read more... )

Last week, Ken and I went to Disney World. Here are my thoughts on Magic Kingdom. (Breaking it up into separate posts so as not to make these posts too long, since cutting them would mess up the format.)

After 23 hours of travel, including a trip to LAX courtesy of bruinbown, delays--our layover plane ditched us!-- and puttering, we made it to Florida a ( Read more... )

So um, I learned that next week, I shall be dining with royalty. Apparently after this one girl made it big and became a princess, she decided to open a restaurant establishment in OrlandoDining with royalty requires very delicate sensibilities and most importantly, manners. As such, Ken has established to me that the following topics are off ( Read more... )

Ken and I were walking down the Farmer's Market on Third Street Promenade this past Saturday when we bumped into a guy with a clipboard. In Los Angeles, a random dude with a clipboard + colored paper standing in the middle of a busy pedestrian roadway usually equals Free Movie. (Or free fliers to a Bible Study. etc ( Read more... )